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"This enrages Rayshaun so much that he puts on Rage facepaint and joins the riots, firebombs buildings. Captain America calls for peace, obviously Rayshaun does not listen."

He firebombs a single building. And we have no idea whether or not he listened. Did he even show up again before the Patriot scene? And throughout it all, he had how many lines? Three?

I don't know what he's going to do next because he's a blank slate. Does he have firm conviction that violence is the only solution, instilled in him by a revolutionary dad? Was the Molotov cocktail something he did while caught up in the emotion of the moment, which he immediately regretted? How should I know? This isn't some character we've been following for years or even for a single arc or even a single story. Build up? What build up? He's someone who up until just now was a glorified extra.

There's a saying Kurt Busiek likes to use when asked "Who would win in a fight?" questions. He answers that it's whichever makes for the better story. "We rig the fights." Same here. That he's a blank slate, that we know so little, means there's room for all sorts of rigging. Maybe they will give him the revolutionary dad. Maybe they'll reveal someone was injured in his explosion, crippling him with guilt. Who knows! Whatever will make for the better story.

I don't know who he is yet and I look forward to reading the stories and learning.

"A tyrant can pardon the rebels or execute them immediately, and they're both equally sensible options. A villain can want to prevent a force field from being built, or depend on the force field being built, and they're both part of his master plan."

They can both make sense in the right context. Execution is everything.